Sparkle Factory
Cartier, Interview, and More Party on at Miami Basel
David Lynch,
diamond fancier? Cartier hosted a dinner in honor of the famously quirky director in Miami on Thursday night, and just before the appetizers hit the table, the venue transformed into an IMAX-like theater for a screening of Diamonds, Gold and Dreams, Lynch's new collaboration with the French jewelers. "It was like my favorite dream ever,"
Rachel Zoe said afterward. "Heaven for me would be having Cartier diamonds raining down on me."
Kirsten Dunst,
meanwhile, was more interested in one of Lynch's other obsessions: transcendental meditation. "I admire your work, Mr. Lynch," the actress said, marching over with a girlfriend. "But this girl here is your biggest fan. She made me try transcendental meditation because of you." But did she stick with it?, the director asked. "Nah, I quit. I got lazy."
The Mondrian hotel, meanwhile, was celebrating its opening (and the hard work of Marcel Wanders, the man responsible for its much anticipated design) with a dinner of its own.
Mary-Kate Olsen,
Stephen Dorff, and gallerist Tony Shafrazi shared the main table with Glenn O'Brien and Christopher Bollen of Interview magazine, which co-hosted with MAC Cosmetics. Taking in the sumptuous views of Biscayne Bay, MAC president John Demsey gave us a hot tip on the company's upcoming Dame Edna product line: It will include "Kangarouge." (For the uninitiated, Dame Edna's the female alter ego of Aussie comic Barry Humphries.) Speaking of the uninitiated:
Marc Jacobs,
a Basel Miami virgin—he normally does Basel Switzerland—decided to visit the warm-weather version this year because he'd missed the European fairs. "I needed an art fix," he said. "It's been a year of intense work." The painter
Alex Katz,
also attending for the first time, apparently still has a lot to learn. "I was invited to host a party for NetJets last night," he related. "It's an airplane company. I didn't know that. I thought I'd meet a bunch of ballplayers."
Insisting he wasn't there to spy on the competition,
André Balazs dropped by for cocktails before jetting off to his own hotel, the Raleigh, where Visionaire was toasting the launch of its new pop-up series. With cocktails petering out—not even Krug, the sponsor of the event, could produce enough Champagne for the magazine's thirsty collection of young, hip revelers—there was a lot of jostling at the several bars, and even thievery. "Don't let this one get away," Balazs said to some friends who earlier had been robbed of their bubbly. Visionaire's
Cecilia Dean looked on the bright side. "I don't mind when the booze runs out," she said. "Or else some of these people would literally never leave."
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